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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. When Harry first drifts into the flashback of his memories in the story, he sees in his mind a railway station in Karagatch. In what country is Karagatch located?
(a) Turkey
(b) Germany
(c) Spain
(d) Russia

2. By what name does the African servant call Harry?
(a) Mbanza
(b) Bwana
(c) Moco’o.
(d) Tamgu

3. Near Harry and his mistress’s camp under the trees, the narrator describes a nearly dry water hole where what animals come to in the mornings?
(a) Sea eagles
(b) Elephants
(c) Vultures
(d) Sand grouse

4. When Harry’s mistress tells him in the beginning of the story that he’s not going to die, he responds by saying, “Don’t be silly. I’m dying now. Ask those bastards.” What does Harry point to when he says this?
(a) The hyenas
(b) The flies
(c) The vultures
(d) The mosquitoes

5. The author’s preface to “The Snows of Kilimanjaro” states that Mount Kilimanjaro is how many feet high?
(a) 19,710
(b) 20,325
(c) 15,356
(d) 18,210

Short Answer Questions

1. When Harry begins dictating to his companion, he describes a log house on a hill above the lake and a road that went up to the hills where Harry had picked what?

2. Harry’s companion says in the beginning of the story, “I said I’d go anywhere you wanted. If you wanted to shoot we could have gone shooting” where?

3. In Harry’s flashback to fleeing from a British gunner subaltern with a woman, they get into a taxi and go to what location along the Bosphorus?

4. By what title does the African servant refer to Harry’s female companion in the story?

5. Harry’s companion tells him when she returns from hunting, “The boys have the wood all ready and the grass to make” what?

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